The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-13
REPUBLICAN, BUNooMBH.

| calculated to excite enthusiasm nau
they been made twenty years ago, but
in this day of progressive politics the
people look forward to see what the
party's policy will be in the future, in
! stead of looking back to see what II has
done in the past.
Ohio this year elects Governor and
State officers, Legislature and county
officers, and there is really no necessity
for discussing national issues. No Con
gressmen are to be elected, and the Leg
islature to be chosen does not elect U,
S. Senator. 1t is State contest, with
State issues pure and simple involved,
and this quibbling about questions set
tied years ago by amendments to the
Constitution, is the regular regulation
clap-trap that is used every year to run
Republican campaigns.
Mr.. Filley being from another State
and probably not acquainted with our
domestic institutions, could say nothing
about State issues. But he could bah
BILE about the dead issues of the war
and wave the bloody shirt. He started
out by saying that the Republican
party abolished slavery. But when it
is remembered that it was not the Re
publican party of today but the Repub-
lican party of years ago, his remarks
are likely to invite criticism. 1t was
men like Charles Sumner, William
fLlOyd Garrison, John w. Forney, and
Horace Greeley who did more for the
abolition of slavery through the editor.
iai columns of the New York Tribune
than any ten thousand men in the
North. But where were these men in
the later years of their life. FOrney
died a Democrat, Greeley accepted a
Democratic nomination for President
and Charles Sumner voted for him.
And where are the most of those good
Republicans of ~ years ago who helped
to abolish slavery, notably Carl SchurZ,
of Mr.. Filley's own State, Judge Trum-
bull, and Ex-Governor Palmer, of Hi
nois; Col. Mcclure and Ex-Governor
Curtain, of Pennsylvania; George W.
Julian, of Indiana; and number of
others. Mr.. Filley should not be un-
mindful of the fact that many. of the
men who aided in the abolition of slaY-
cry are no longer Republicans, but
most of them have got over into the
Democratic camp.
Mr.. Gibson made very able and ell
oquent address but he said nothing
about State issues. He ridiculed CleVe-
lands ss"Jeffersonian Simplicity" OF
riding in hundred thousand dollar car
on his trip to the West, intimating to
his audience that his expenses were
paid by the Government, But the ven
cradle General might have said in the
same strain of his powerful elOquence,
that the expenses of that trip were paid
by Cleveland himself out of his own
pocket before he left the city of Wash
ington. He exposed the corruption of
the Democratic city of Baltimore, but
said nothing about the city Philadel-
phia, with it Republican Mayor embez-
zling the city funds, and narrowly es-
Gaping impeachment by the Council.
He criticised Cleveland for not respond
ing to Forakers invitation, but neglect
ed to tell how Foraker had exhausted
his intellectual resources to heap indie
cent insult upon the President. He
expouhded the theory of protection by
showing how it cheapened the price of
articles, but failed to show that the fact
of tariff duties levied on articles of con
sumption must necessarily increase its
cost
The two gentlemen talked for nearly
three hours and not one word was men
toned by either of them upon the vital
issues of the State; not one word about
Foraker violating his civic service
pledges by throwing the management
of the State institutions into sewer
of politics; not one word to relieve the
people from excessive taxation; not one
word about Foraker's scheme to in
crease the farmers by reYaluing the
the land; not one word about how Re
publicans,, by revolutionary methods,
made II majority of 81; not one word
to explain the actions Of Republican
Legislature in increasing Foraker's sal
ary from $4,000 to 5000 a year. The
farmers of Ohio are tottering under the
hunger for such nourishment from the
Republican speakers, and they demand
reduced taxes and the enforcement of
economy in the several branches of
government so that our expenses and
appropriations will not exceed our rev.
enues.